The document discusses vital statistics, which are numerical records of life events like births, deaths, marriages, and divorces that can be used to study public health trends. Vital statistics are collected through civil registration systems and sample surveys. They provide data to evaluate health programs, plan for disease control, inform legislation and policymaking, and allow comparisons between populations. Important vital statistics include crude death rate, age-specific death rate, infant mortality rate, neonatal mortality rate, post-neonatal mortality rate, and maternal mortality rate.

1. Presented by:-
Soumya Ranjan Parida
Basic Bsc. Nursing(7th sem)
Regd. No-1141535034

2. VITAL EVENTS
BIRTH DEATH MARRIAGE
DIVORCE
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3. Definition:-
Vital statistics are conventionally numerical
records of marriage births, sickness, and death by
which the health and growth of community may be
studied.
Or
It is a branch of biometry deals with data and law of
human mortality, morbidity,& demography.

4. Purpose:-
1) Community Health: To describe the level of community
health, to diagnose community illness & to discover
solutions to health problems.
2) Administrative purpose: It provides clues for
administrative action to create administrative standards
of health activities.
3) Health programmed organization: To determine
success or failure of specific health programmed or
undertake overall evaluation of public health work.
4) Legislation purpose: To promote health legislation at
local, state,& national level.
5) Government Purpose: To develope, policies, procedure
at state and central level.

5. Uses:-
 To evaluate the impact of various National Health
Programmes.
 To plan for better future measures of disease control.
 To explain the heridetary nature of the disease.
 To plan and evaluate economic and social development.
 It is a primary tool in research activities.
 To determine the health status of individual.
 To compare the health status of individual one nation
with others.

6. Sources of Vital Statistics:-
 1. Civil Registration System:
It is defined as the continous permanent
and compulsory recording of the occurrence of vital
events like live births, deaths, fetal deaths,
marriages, divorces, as well as annulments, judicial
separation, adoption. Civil registration is
performed under a law and regulation so as to
provide legal basis to the records and certificate
made from system.

7. 2. National Sample Survey:
The data collected from the census are not
very reliable and available only once in 10 years. In
absence of reliable data from the civil registration
system(SRS), the need for reliable statistics at
national and state levels is being met through
sample surveys launched from time to time.

8. 3. Sample Registration System:
In this system, there is continous
enumeration of births and deaths in a sample of
villages/urban blocks by a resident parttime
enumerator and then an independent six monthly
retrospective survey by a full time supervisor.

9. 4. Health Surveys:
A few important sources for demographic data
have emerged. These are National Family Health
Surveys(NFHS) and the District Levels Household
Surveys(DLHS) conducted for evaluation of reproductive
and child health programmes.
NFHS provide estimates of fertility, child mortality
and a no. of fertility, child mortality and a no. of health
parameters relating to infants and children at state level.
The DLHS provide information at the district level
on a no. of indicators relating to child health,
reproductive health problems and quality of services
availability to them.

10. Important Vital Statistics
(a) Crude Death Rate (CDR)
= Total death in a given year X 1000
Average or mid year pop. of a year
(b) Age-specific Death rate (ASDR)
Nos. of death at age ’a’ _X 1000
Mid-yrs pop. of a given year
at age ’a’
Crude rate is
based on total
population
while a specific
rate is based
on the basis of
age, sex,
cause etc
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11. (c) Infant Mortality rate (IMR)
= Nos. of infant death in a year X1000
Nos. of live birth in the year
d) Neonatal Mortality Rate
= Death under one months X 1000
Nos. of live birth

12. d) Post-neonates Mortality Rate
= Death between 1st and 11 complete months x 1000
Nos. of live birth
(e) Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
nos. of death of mother due to the cause related
to maternity X 1000
Total nos. of live birth